Owner ValCenters of Newport Beach has obtained $37 million in refinancing for North County Square, a grocery-anchored retail center in Vista, according to Holliday Fenoglio Fowler LP (HFF), which arranged the financing.

San Diego-based video game developer Psyonix Inc. has signed a multiple-floor lease as it expands into downtown’s 1 Columbia Place, according to office tower owner Emmes Realty Services of California LLC.

More than 600 tour-goers attended the La Mesa Historical Society’s midcentury modern home tour on an unseasonably warm day in early November. It was like stepping back in time, made all the more real when several San Diego trolleys turned up to carry the aficionados around the rural roads of Mount Helix.

At the mid-point of 2016, Civic San Diego reported that the red-hot downtown market had more than 11,000 apartment and condo units in the works. That included 4,401 units under construction, 4,868 approved and pending construction, and 1,776 with plans submitted and pending approval.

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Reno Contracting Inc., a local general contractor nearing the quarter-century milestone, has transformed itself from a builder of offices to a multifaceted player in multiple markets, from hospitality to health care.

San Francisco-based Swift Real Estate Partners has obtained $90 million in financing for its recent acquisition and upcoming repositioning of the Rancho Bernardo office campus that it recently acquired from tech giant HP Inc.